Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-29
DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
COUNCIL.

ltUhlI1DG lbI YUM A 80 q" 49,"
I'm tax lists and receipts.
By Galloway, for the issuing OF duplicates
OF certain coupons Of the Madison normal
school bonds lost in the mail.
BY Mead, pertaining TO treasurers' lees I'D
tax titles.
BY Grigsby, relating to damages caused by
railroads.
BY McCumber, compelling railroads to erect
grain warehouses and furnish separate stor'
age for each portion when demanded and han
die grain the same as other freight.
Bills passed:
Authorizing associations for mutual pro.
section against larcenies OF live stock.
Extending the 1886 tax delinquency to
June I.
Adjourned.
BISMARCK, Jan. 1s.-In the council a
psi.ion was presented for the reduction OF
fees and claims of county officers and the ex-
ssnsion of the time for paying taxes.
Bills introduced:
To provide for the foreclosure Of mortgages
without notice; concerning the burial of
union soldiers and sailors; protecting game;
90 fog wife bcaters; TO permit counties 70 ar
bitrate indie )tedness, relating to probate
courts, the salaries OF probate Judges, and the
disposition OF chattels In probate cases; for
the establishment of a soldiers home at Pierre
aud appropriating 5000 therefor; To re.
strict criminal prosecution in justices courts;
~ uNplOillNal EIACbIIs
Bills passed.
To change the code Of civil procedure, and
90 change the word MORTGAGE TO mortgager,
relating to the Grand Forks university.
A resolution was offered requesting the at
torney.general's opinion regarding the terri
tery's indemnity for school lands divided by
federal statutes.
Adjourned.
BISMARCK, Jan. 19.-ln the council bills
were introduced:
Authorizing cities, towns ana villages to
refund bonded Indebtedness; for the organi-
station Of library institutions; relating TO the
cling OF attachment papers; amending the
health statute; to encourage the study Of
medicine.
Council bills passed:
Providing for the registration Of school or
ders; also giving railroad employees compen-
"a Try damages I'm cases OF Injury.
TIL" bin relating TO the manner Of satisfy
ing Judgments was rejected.
Adjourned.
BISMARCK, Jan. 20.-In the council q bill was
introduced for the formation of boards Of
trade and chambers Of commerce.
The council bill passed legalizing the no.
sariaI acts Of Henry Krogh after the expira:
ton OF his commission.
House hill for the extension of the time Of
payment of the tax OF 1856, came up. The
council submitted its own bin therefore, pass.
ed some days ago. The differences Of the
bills is that the house measure simply post
pones the penalty OF 5 per cent. for delin-
suency TO June |, and retains interest at /
per cent. a month. The council bin post
pores the delinquency, penalty and interest
and prevents the application of the law to
railroad corporations.
The council passed the house measure to
prrchase Lcvlse's code Tor members, with an
amendment that the books remain the prop
erty af the territory.
Adjourned.
BISMARCK, Jan. Gin the council bills
we're introduced:
Creating office county auditor; pertaining
to Pembina county bonds; relating to civil
trial and judgments; authsrizing cousties
and townships to bond their Indebtedness
for inspecting Illuminating oils; for the pun
ishment of wilful neglect of officers Ia make
reports required by law, also pertaining TO
compensation Of probate Judges; amending
the law for the organization and government
OF civil townships.
Council bills passed:
Repeating the special law Of 1885 relating
to the compensation OF the register of deeds
Of Grand Forks county.
IL DIbNNIc lutl LOT lHt tADlIDl UuTlDV the
legislative session.
Amending the code relating Co private cor
poratlons, amended to still require seven in
corporators OF insurance companies.
Increasing the fees OF register OF deeds was
unanimously rejected.
The report of the conference committee on
house bill No. % was adopted and the bill
passed.
Adjourned.
In the house bills were introduced:
BY Ruggles, making IL unlawful TO leave
wells or excavations unprotected.
BY Ensign, providing change Of county
- calls in certain cases iy a majority vote.
BY Spraguc, providing FOR an accounting of
bankruptcy assignees on application of credi-
tors.
council bills passed;
Correcting error regarding the delivery Of
Surplus In mortgage sale.
Providing committee clerks and subordi-
nate officers and employees Of the legis allure.
The house refused concurrence In the coun-
Gil amendments To house bill No. %.
The special committee on car ital basement
saloon reported that they had found such in.
stitUtioD without authority for being there
and presented a bill declaring the sam I'm
lawful
House bills passed:
Relating to fifth subdivision Of the sixth
,adicial district.
Repeating struck juries.
The conference committee on house bill
No. rs reported In favor OF substituting July
for June and 1t was adopted.
This postpones the penalty for 1886 taxes
TO July and continues the interest ut | per
cent. per month.
Joint resolutions were introduced asking
congress to improve Yellow Stone park; and
to open the Devils Lake reservation, both OF
which pressed.
Adjourned.
BISMARCK, Jan. 3s.-Bills were introduced
In the councils
Restoring fines and liquor licenses to the
sGiool fund.
Making moderators members OF school
boards, also making township supervisors for
"a tern OF three years.
Revealing the law giving creditors right OF
secrniy and attachment whether removing
fJr purposes of fraud or otherwise: also, pre-
venting justices OF the peace ktt ,ins nG.ce in
the same room with a law partner, aud pro.
@htbiting such partner prac icing before such
justice.
Appropriating s15, 900 TO- aid county sgri-
cultural societies; also, taxing telegraph, tel
eephoEe and sleeping car companies.
Council bills passed:
Giving tire departments = per cent. of the
insurance premiums collected IN respective
gStics and towns.